Combined listed-corn cultivator and weeder.



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(Appli llllllll UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ANDREV J. SUTTON, OF OTTUMWA, KANSAS.

COMBINED LISTED-CORN CULTIVATOR AND WEEDER.

SEECIFICATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,287, dated June 25, 1901.

Application led March 13, 1901. Serial No. 513008. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. SUTTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ot.- tumwa, in the county of Coffee and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Listed-Corn Oultivator and Wfeeder; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in corn-cultivators, especially of that type designed for use in the cultivation of listed corn.

To this end the invention contemplates a simple and effective machine of this character comprising means for not only thoroughly cultivating the corn without any danger of covering the same up by dirt and clods, but also for paring off the weeds.

As is well known, listed corn when planted is in a trench with well-defined ridges between the rows, which are thrown up by the ordinary double-plow lister, and for that reason it is difficult to cultivate the corn when small on account of the liability of covering the same up by dirt and clods. The present invention provides a construction which obviates this possibility, while also paring off the Weeds and cultivating the corn in such a manner as tol allow just enough ne dirt to fall into the trench about the corn so as to leave the same well hoed. Also the shovels are so arranged in connection with the other parts of the machine as to tend to level the ridges, so that when the machine passes over nothing is left to interfere with the corn.

With these and many other obj ects in view, which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

The essential features of the invention are necessarily susceptible to some modification without departing from thepspirit or scope thereof, but the preferred embodiment of the improvements is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a listedcorn cultivator and weeder constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view thereof on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of one of the shovel connections. Y j

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

In carrying out the invention the main body of the machine essentially comprises a runner-frame 1, consisting of a pair of parallel runners 2 of duplicate formation and spaced a sufficient distance apart to straddle the cornrow and permit of the cultivation of the soil at both sides of the row, while at the same time protecting the corn from being covered up by dirt and clods. As is usual in this type of machines, the upright parallel runners 2 are constructed of wood and are preferably provided at their lower edges with the metallic protective wear-shoes 3, which serve to protect the runners from undue wear, while at the same time permitting the same to be freely drawn over the ground. In addition to the parallel runners 2 the runner-frame l includes a plurality of arched cross-braces 4, bridging the space between' the runners at the top thereof, and rigidly fastened at their opposite ends, as at 5, to the inner sides of the runners, thus providing a structure in which the runners are thoroughly braced and are held perfectly rigid in their spaced relation. The present invention also contemplates providing the runners 2 at the bottom corners of their heel ends with cut-away portions 6, which serve to lighten the draft by reason of obviating the drag which occurs at the rear ends of the runners; also, the said cut-away portions 6 necessarily lighten the draft on account of lessening the extent of runner-surface on the ground. l

One of the arched cross-braces 4, preferably the center one, is considerably higher than the other braces located, respectively, at the front and rear end portions of the runnerframe and projects a considerable distance above the runners to constitute a support for the drivers seat 7, and at the front ends of the runners 2 the latter are provided with horizontally disposed outwardly projecting IOO or laterally-offset foot-rests S, which rests are preferably braced to the outside` of the runners through the medium of exterior braces 9'and afford offset points of connection for the draft appliance l0. The draft appliance 10 essentially consists of the forwardly-convergent draft-rods ll, suitably connected at their front ends and pivotally connected by a pivotal connection l2 at their rear ends, re:- spectively, with the opposite offset rests 8 for the purpose hereinafter explained. At this point it Will be noted that the rests S not only fitted withiweeding knives or blades 30, sefcured to the outer sides of the opposite runserve as foot-rests, but also as points ofconnection for the draft appliance, as Well as acting as guards which crushvclods and prevent the overturning of the machine.`

The runner-frame, consisting of lthe run= n`ers-2, constitutesa carrier and support forA a 'verticallysswin ging sh'ovellcarryin g frame 13; This frame essentially consists of'a transverse rock-shaft 14:` an'd-a'pair'of opposite" rearwardly-extending beams l5, carrying the cultivator-shovelsl, Working, respectively, at the outside of the opposite runners; The

transverse rock-shaft let serves as a common shovels 16 are'heldin spacedrelation tothe lOpposite sidesof the'run'ners and in vlineWith =theconnection 12 of the draft appliance 10, so` that the draft will come directly 'onthe shovels.

connection or coupling between' the opposite shovel-carrying beams-l5 and is-journaled'in suitable bearings 17, provided upon the opposte runners-and'top edgesthereof, thusprovidinga journaling` ofl therock-shaft trans` versely of the runner-frame at the top there'- of. Any suitable type of shovel'- carrying beams may be utilized in connection with the rock-shaft le and may either be integrally formed withy such rock-shaft orA separately unitedthereto Without affecting the spiritor' scope of the invention, andaltho'ngh any kind of cultivator-shovel may be fitted to thestandardslofthe beams l5 a'- preferableishovel attachmen't is' shown in' the drawings and`con= sistsin: mounting theV shovels I6 upon the standardsby-a pivotl'and holding the same pin connection l 9 or equivalent device.

Vhile'the vertical adjustment of the shovelferent means, a preferable construction is shown in' the drawingsandresides in the employment` of an oscillatory adjusting device 20, formed of a shaft journa'led in suitable bea-rings 21' at the top edge of oppositek run'- nersand provided With'an intermediatecrank or crank-bend 2l" between the' planes of: the runners-and at its-oppositeextremities with ends with the slide-eyes 23, loosely. receiving the shovel-carrying beams 15. The move'L ment of the adjusting device orsli'aft 2l is ef'- fectedby means of an operators lever 24:, pivotally supported at its lower end, as at 25', uponthe inner side of one of the' runners in' front of the drivers'seat and having a pivotal linkconnection 26 with the'v intermediate crankor'crank-bend 2l of-v the adjusting deviceor shaft 20. The said lever 24 is provided intermediate its endswith a catch lip or flangev ,'20 inveith'erl direction will necessarily eect either the up or down movement of the shovelcarrying frame.

In using ,the machinethe same 1s preferably ners in advance of the cultivating-shovels land upwardly and rearwardly inclined With" reference to the lineY of movement ofthe ma lchine, sol as-to occupy such a plane as teef- `fectively pare oftv the weeds fromthe-:sidesof ,each ridge, i v`opera-tedwith or Without the said knives gbut the same are preferably employed',- a-ndnec-V .essarily so when `the ridgeshave agrowtir-of-f lweedsat the sides of the corn-rows;

TheY machine of course canY be It-should be noted' that the cultivating- From' the foregoingit is thought thatthe fgconstructiou, operation, and'4 man-yadva'n` jftagesof the' hereinsdescriljed 'machine-Willbev readily apparentwithout f irrther'description, v and 'itwill be understoodV t'tatchange'sin the form, proportion; and minorv detailsof con-f struction may 'be'res'orted to\vithout"depart' ing from'the spirit-'or scopefofftheinvention- "such, for instance, as t'he'cliangesalreadyirrdicated and such details" as the' bearing `braces 3l; reaching from' the-'fo'otsrests 8 to fthe end yportions offt'he roelf-shaft'l.

in Working position by the ordinary-break- `I claimv as new, and'd'esiretoV secure by Lettersv Patent, is-

carrying frame maybe accomplished by dif'- Having thus describedthe' invention, what l; In a' machine of theclass'fdescrib'ed, thev grunner-frame having opposite'runners, averftically-swinging shovel-carrying frame hav-V ing a` transverse rock-shaftA andL oppositelyjlocated shovel-beams, and a suitably-actu:-

ated oscillatory adjusting'- shaftT mountedV upon the runner-frame and vprovided With-ter-v minal arms havingv loose engagement with saidb'eams.

the-angled crank-armsZZ, provided aty their I 2. In a machine ofthe class described; a

lrunner-frame provided at the: front ends of j its runners Vwith outWardly-projecting rests, a shovel-carrying frame having shovel-beams at` th'e'buter sides of the runners, and a trans-4 verse rock-shaft connecting said beams, a

draftappliancel connected With said rests in line with the shovels, and braces extending fromthe rock-shaft't'o the point of connection of the draft appliance withA said rests.

3; In amachine of the class described, the

runner-frame comprising the opposite runners, a'vertioally-swinging shovel-carrying neotion with the intermediate crank, and 1o frame comprising a transverse rook-shaft looking means for said lever.

journaled upon the runners, and. shovel- In testimony whereof I affix my signature beams located at the outer sides of the runin presence of tivo witnesses.

5 ners, an oscillatory adj Listing-shaft also journalecl upon the runners and provided with an ANDREW J' SUTTON' intermediate crank, and with terminal orauk- Witnesses: arms having loose engagement with the said E. N. CONNAL, beams, an operators lever having a link eon- XV. F. MCCORMICK, 

